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This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance, and meanings of feasting and foodways in the texts and cultural-material environments of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Thus, it serves as both an introduction to and explication of this emerging field. The offerings range from the third-millennium Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia to the rise of a new cuisine in the Islamic period and transverse geographical locations such as southern Iraq, Syria, the Aegean, and especially the southern Levant. The strength of this collection lies in the many disciplines and methodologies that come together. Texts, pottery, faunal studies, iconography, and anthropological theory are all accorded a place at the table in locating the importance of feasting as a symbolic, social, and political practice. Various essays showcase both new archaeological methodologies—zooarchaeological bone analysis and spatial analysis—and classical methods such as iconographic studies, ceramic chronology, cultural anthropology, and composition-critical textual analysis.

Fasts and feasts --- Middle Eastern literature --- Church festivals --- Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts --- Fast days --- Feast days --- Feasts --- Heortology --- Holy days --- Religious festivals --- Christian antiquities --- Days --- Fasting --- Liturgics --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theology, Practical --- Church calendar --- Festivals --- Holidays --- Sacred meals --- Judaism --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Judentum --- Religiöses Fest --- Fest. --- Middle Eastern literature. --- RELIGION --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Holidays, Jewish --- Jewish holidays --- Jews --- Fasts and feasts in the Bible --- Near Eastern literature --- Judaism. --- Sacred Writings. --- Biblical Studies --- Old Testament. --- Bible. Old Testament --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Alter Orient --- Feste --- Festivität --- Veranstaltung --- Feier --- Party --- Religiöser Festtag --- Religiöse Feste --- Fest --- Jüdische Religion --- Judaismus --- Philosemitismus --- Jüdische Philosophie --- Jüdische Ethik --- Juden --- Religion --- Israel --- Orient --- Vorderasien --- Altorientalistik --- Naher Osten --- Festivität